To see you

For all the distractions
– I am ADHD
I can see you

Though everything happens
at the same time

I can see

the forest for the trees,

the predator for the prey

I can follow the traces

trailing in the mind

and still be here

my body in the world

to see you

and look at you alone,

as you are in the moment,

cut the moment out of history

see you against the background space

in stark contrast

the being in defiance of nothingness

with all the world;

mind's eyes and cultures

places in time

your eyes and the distant thunder

of the same green

we in relation to the world
– these things to see you

in context

and remember what we share.

The Queen is Sick (the mother has seen too much)

I know all the secret names;

they are arbitrary

  -- but how can a mother be

in a dying world?

I found a bridge

but it was in the Terrain

and could not be used

between us

because it wasn't a sign

it was just a bridge

not in the obvious place

but animals had used it

there were traces

in the snow

I crossed and got lost

but only for a while

and then I went back

to where I had been

and it was now a human place

and there are these signs
-- so how can a mother be?

She has to believe

She is the Queen

and She can never know

even if the world was dying

but she lives in a human place

and if there is a future

for these the traces that point there – beyond

like Us

We can find Her

and the world as we know it

was not dead after all

it only came close

and the mother could only hope

(it is so very human)

but we who are not the Queen

we now know that the Terrain isn't arbitrary.